Emma Pritchard
@ecpritchard.bsky.social
Queering justice and human rights • LGBTIAQ storytelling • currently found phd-ing, playing with comms for humanitarian organisations, and probably drinking a cup of tea
🏳️🌈 she/they• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds
During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...
euobserver.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
Dogs off-lead on shared use cycle/foot paths: discuss.
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dogs off-lead on shared use cycle/foot paths: discuss.
Into the annoying period when I need to put events in for next year but my diary company haven't released their 2026 diaries yet.
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Into the annoying period when I need to put events in for next year but my diary company haven't released their 2026 diaries yet.
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People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is also true for LGBTIQ+ people - I've had so many more friends report instances of harassment both verbal and physical in the last year.
Friends have explained that street harassment today is significantly worse than it was just after the riots a year ago, taking clear action to condemn does set a tone and direction!
Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is also true for LGBTIQ+ people - I've had so many more friends report instances of harassment both verbal and physical in the last year.
In other news, we are now making school cake.
The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.
September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In other news, we are now making school cake.
The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.
September 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.
Does anyone have recommendations for good second hand book websites that aren't owned by Amazon?
September 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Does anyone have recommendations for good second hand book websites that aren't owned by Amazon?
I do not like being in a version of the UK where I am actively considering whether it is safe to have the rainbow/queer stickers I have on my laptop while travelling.
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I do not like being in a version of the UK where I am actively considering whether it is safe to have the rainbow/queer stickers I have on my laptop while travelling.
Do cross country design their trains as Faraday cages so you have to sell your data to their WiFi service?
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Do cross country design their trains as Faraday cages so you have to sell your data to their WiFi service?
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I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.
'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters'
you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.
you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.
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It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
My favourite thing about cooking in other people's kitchens is that everyone answers the question "if I were a vegetable peeler where would I live" in a different way
September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My favourite thing about cooking in other people's kitchens is that everyone answers the question "if I were a vegetable peeler where would I live" in a different way
Sometimes you need to push through on your PhD.
Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.
Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.
September 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sometimes you need to push through on your PhD.
Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.
Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.
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Q for the reporter: did you feel any desire or obligation to point out that all of this *is* racism? Or are you just here to observe the racism and amplify it without commenting on the fact that it is, indeed, factually racist as hell?
Press neutrality is an oxymoron. Time to show some principles.
Press neutrality is an oxymoron. Time to show some principles.
This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise
September 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Q for the reporter: did you feel any desire or obligation to point out that all of this *is* racism? Or are you just here to observe the racism and amplify it without commenting on the fact that it is, indeed, factually racist as hell?
Press neutrality is an oxymoron. Time to show some principles.
Press neutrality is an oxymoron. Time to show some principles.
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All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.
Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
September 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.
BBC managed to report on the UN finding of genocide in Gaza as their frontpage article this morning - yet you'll note that no Palestinian is allowed to speak in the article, while Israel's refutation is prominantly cited.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
BBC managed to report on the UN finding of genocide in Gaza as their frontpage article this morning - yet you'll note that no Palestinian is allowed to speak in the article, while Israel's refutation is prominantly cited.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Becoming that person: going for a run in my Ice Hockey Varsity T-shirt from 2013.
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Becoming that person: going for a run in my Ice Hockey Varsity T-shirt from 2013.
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"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
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My letter to Lord Reed.
This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow.
If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form:
supremecourt.uk/_next/static...
This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow.
If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form:
supremecourt.uk/_next/static...
September 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My letter to Lord Reed.
This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow.
If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form:
supremecourt.uk/_next/static...
This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow.
If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form:
supremecourt.uk/_next/static...
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The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform
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You have to be extraordinarily naive or criminally indifferent not to find this absolutely beyond the pale.
From the Labour government, not a word…
From the Labour government, not a word…
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
You have to be extraordinarily naive or criminally indifferent not to find this absolutely beyond the pale.
From the Labour government, not a word…
From the Labour government, not a word…
Yes, I may need to use tape to keep my joints in place to do the high impact sport of embroidery.
But, it does have flowers on it
So who's the real loser here?
But, it does have flowers on it
So who's the real loser here?
September 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yes, I may need to use tape to keep my joints in place to do the high impact sport of embroidery.
But, it does have flowers on it
So who's the real loser here?
But, it does have flowers on it
So who's the real loser here?
Did not need taskmaster reminding me I don't know my 7 times table on a Saturday morning
September 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Did not need taskmaster reminding me I don't know my 7 times table on a Saturday morning